Why Most Asian People Don’t Need To Use Deodorant

As a general rule, Asian people do not have Rh-negative blood, and hospitals do not usually stock it for transfusions. Foreign tourists with a negative blood type can find themselves in big trouble if they need a blood transfusion in the region. Asians tend to have some peculiarities compared to Westerners, and one of them is that they don’t usually need deodorant to get rid of body odor.

We, from incredible.club, we know that feeling envy is not cool, but we can’t help feeling a little bit of it towards Asians, since, according to different studies, they don’t have to bother using deodorant under their armpits. And it’s not because people of Asian ethnicities don’t care about body odor, but because of a special condition that we will reveal in this post.

No one is born with smelly armpits, as our bodies actually produce odorless perspiration. Subsequently, the sweat is taken over by the bacteria and this is what causes that unpleasant smell. But a recent study from the University of Bristol in the UK concluded that whether or not you have smelly armpits also depends on a specific gene called ABCC11.

Initially, experts thought that the gene was only responsible for the consistency of earwax, making it wetter or dry. By the way, these scholars found that 80% to 95% of people in East Asia have drier earwax, whereas in Africans and Europeans it tends to be wet. And surprisingly, the consistency of the wax is linked to the smell of underarms.

Apparently, Asians have a special genetic condition, which is the absence of the ABCC11 gene. The condition causes earwax to become drier due to the lack of substance used by bacteria as food. The same goes for sweat: it has no smell because the bacteria are “hungry”since the body of Asians does not produce the substance that serves as food for micro-organisms.

Europeans and Africans are not so lucky, as less than 3% of them do not have the gene. Thus, bacteria find an environment in the armpits to develop, which ends up generating the bad smell.

Surprisingly, the vast majority of women continue to use deodorant even without having the “bad smell gene”. Genetic experts suggest that societal pressure is why many continue to maintain unnecessary hygiene routines just because “everyone has them.”

How would you feel leaving the house and realizing you forgot to put on deodorant? Do you have any techniques for dealing with body odor? Leave your comment!